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On 03/17/2011 02:32 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Dropped cygwin-apps. > > Erwin, you don't seem to understand the importance of not changing > current behavior, when replacing existing apps. I'm trying to point out > (a) how little your proposed package actually differs from the current > cygutils implementations, and (b) what needs to change to make the new > version a drop-in replacement. > > Because that's what you're trying to do: make a drop in replacement. > > Regardless of whether some current behavior of cygutils-dos2unix is good > or bad, CHANGE is worse -- since people have been relying on the current > behavior for years. > Hi Chuck, I do understand you very well, but I come from the other side. The dos2unix that I packed and maintain is around on Unix/Linux since 1989. I assume there are much more Linux users than Cygwin users. So I don't want to break things on Linux. Since Cygwin tries to be Linux-alike, I offer this package to the cygwin community. Personally I prefer to have the same on Cygwin as on Linux. The cygwin community may have got used to the current cygwin tailored implementation. But I bet there are many cygwin users who also work on Linux, so there is a big chance they are already familiar with the version I maintain. Erwin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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